A growth area, the number of home ventilator-dependent patients has risen in the 1980s and 1990s -- a result of increased survival rates of critically ill patients and technological advances, such as noninvasive ventilation, which can prolong and improve quality of life. 1

Treating tinnitus: Tinnitus symptoms were significantly reduced for up to four years in patients treated with a noninvasive procedure that uses magnetic fields to stimulate neurons in the brain, according to a study in Brain Stimulation.